New car speakers can make a huge difference in your sound. Best of all, even modestly priced speakers from proven manufacturers can easily outperform most speakers installed at the factory. In this video, we’ll give you some recommendations for speakers that cost under $100 — sometimes well under.
Even at that price, you’re getting a much better designed and built speaker than the one that comes with your car. It makes logical sense. Auto manufacturers need speakers that sound just good enough at the lowest price possible. Speaker manufacturers like Kicker, Pioneer, Kenwood or any others only need to design and build the speaker. You get a better made, better sounding product that’s made to last a lot longer. And you don’t need to spend a ton of money to get great results.
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Here’s our favorite car speakers under $100. We’ve left some good speakers off this list, and we welcome your opinion in the comments! Here they are, in no particular order:
*Best value:* Kenwood Sport Series:
*Best sounding with a factory radio:* Infinity Primus:
*Super efficient:* Rockford Fosgate Prime:
*Give ’em some power:* Kicker CS Series coaxial speakers:
*2-ohm replacements:* PowerBass OE Series:
VIDEO CHAPTERS:
0:00 Inexpensive speakers can sound great
0:18 What fits and how to install yourself
0:39 Compare how speakers sound online
1:05 Kenwood Sport Series
1:48 Infinity Primus
2:32 Rockford Fosgate Prime
3:01 Kicker CS Series coaxial speakers
3:47 PowerBass OE Series
4:19 Recap
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I got a pair of 6×8 kicker cs brand new in the box off FB market place for 40 bucks….best deal i found
This is a very concise video, major props. It’s actually hard to accomplish and ya’ll did great.
i love the kicker cs 6.5s and 6.9s on my ct sounds ct.150.4d amp. Very good power and sound greatt!!! Though, since i decided on swapping my entire subs/amps/ kicker stuff out for a full ct sound build. I gotta admit the ct sound meso 6.5s and 6.9s are truly a work of art and i noticed much higher SQ over the kicker cs ones. So those are back in the box sitting for now only had my kicker build for 3 months so its new stuff lol not going sell it. but ya !! Great speakers overall but for real check out ct sounds excellent price and very high SQ
No sound test?
what trickery with the (tiny magnet) stock speakers makes them produce more bass than dropping 6.5s/6.75s coaxs in the lower door (speaking from a recent Subaru and Mazda and Infinity REF-607F experience (both in the lower front door replacing a factory woofer)??? Both cars have the base 6-speaker configuration with OE HUs. Granted, I know Subaru isn’t know for great HUs, but still, the OE door woofer was boomy and the REF-607F is not. I had Kicker DSC6504s in the door of the mazda and they were terrible.